資料來源 : pyDict
霹靂,雷電,意外,怒喝
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Thunderbolt \Thun"der*bolt`\, n.
1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity
passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from
the clouds to the earth.
2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and
effectiveness.
The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war.
--Dryden.
3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially,
ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of
excommunication. --Hakewill.
4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
{Thunderbolt beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a long-horned beetle
({Arhopalus fulminans}) whose larva bores in the trunk of
oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black,
with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.
資料來源 : WordNet®
thunderbolt
n 1: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: {bolt},
{bolt of lightning}]
2: a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a
bombshell" [syn: {bombshell}, {thunderclap}]